It’s the end of June, and the third “Odd Thomas” book with Dean Koontz, titled “House of Odd”, is up to the final stages. I’ve done all the pencils for the whole book, currently around 190 pages, and after the last 50 pages are inked (and toned by fantastic toner Dee DuPuy), it’ll be officially over. The book is due in April 2012, just after the movie, so keep your eyes peeled for it!
On another note, I’ve been doing some more “Knits and Bits” projects on the side. To show folks how my little cakes are put together, I’ve taken a series of step-by-step photos of how I make them from the kits.
- Step 1: The full kit, in its original box. I bought it off an Internet Shopping site, Rakuten.co.jp. It’s kinda like a Japanese eBay of sorts, but with English translations.
- Step 2: Take everything out of the box, and make sure it’s all there. The needle is NOT included in the kit though, and I didn’t know that. Luckily, I had one leftover from a previous project.
- Step 3: Roll up the large white wool, and put it into the cup. The size of the rolled-up wool was huge, and it took a LONG time for it to be made compact enough. Lots of stabbing.
- Step 4: Stabbed the thin layer of Chocolate to the top of the Vanilla. Easy, this part.
- Step 5: Made each of the orange slices. This took AGES and a lot of stabbing all directions, since they have to be shaped in a particular way. My hand got pretty tired.
- Step 6: I then added the little fluffy brown bits, which was quite difficult as the wool felt was kinda disobedient, and was flying all over the place. I struggled to get it under control, then stabbed it down too much. The brown topping is supposed to look more fluffy than this, but oh well. Started stabbing the oranges on.
- Step 7: Adding the little bits of green. Mint? This is the last step. Afterwards, Viola!
And now for the finished cake, the Slice o’ Orange Cake-in-a-Cup:
- Final Product: This took me 4 hours to make, in-between working on “Odd Thomas 3”, listening to music, watching a Chinese Martial Arts movie on Youtube, and random internet surfing.